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Posted by aaron cohen Jan 6, 2010 0

Plastic Bag Ban – Brownsville, TX

"Brownsville officials are hoping a unanimously passed ban on plastic grocery bags will make the city the first in Texas to rid the landscape of the so-called “urban tumbleweeds.”"

Posted by aaron cohen Jan 4, 2010 0

Sherlock Holmes Story from Vanity Fair

Here's a Sherlock Holmes story reprinted in Vanity Fair.

Posted by aaron cohen Dec 29, 2009 0

2009 NY Times Notable Opinion Art

2009's Notable Opinion art from the New York Times.

Posted by aaron cohen Dec 23, 2009 0

Plastic Bag Ban – Nothern Territory, Australia

"Legislation will be passed next year banning the supply by retailers to customers of all lightweight single-use bags."

Posted by aaron cohen Nov 20, 2009 0

The Don Draper of Baseball

The Tampa Bay Rays Executive VP Andrew Friedman doesn't have a contract for some reason. Thanks, Dave!

Posted by aaron cohen Nov 19, 2009 0

Cash for Your Warhol > Cats for Gold

If only because Cash For Your Warhol came around many, many months (a year even?) before Cats for Gold. That is all.

Posted by emdash Oct 30, 2009 0

Hashtag Hilarity

Rhode Island's Knowledge Retention Summit made an interesting decision when they chose a Twitter hashtag.

Posted by aaron cohen Oct 26, 2009 0

Rapper’s Delight is 30 Years Old

In a column celebrating the the 30th anniversary of Sugar Hill Gang's seminal hit 'Rapper's Delight', this Boston Globe column discusses how odd it is that the song is one of the few pop hits in recent history to not have a chorus, while barely touching on the fact that it's probably the only pop hit in recent history to be 15 freaking minutes long.

Posted by aaron cohen Oct 22, 2009 1

What to do with Junk Mail

These Business Reply Mail pamphlets remind me of how I used to deal with credit card offers before I became complacent.

Posted by aaron cohen Oct 18, 2009 0

Remember Him?

Joe the Plumber?

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One Liners

"The bill -- which mirrors the Los Angeles County bill -- goes into effect July 1."
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"It got me under the water but not much because I started kicking at its neck and I came back up again and I'm punching its nose again, punching, punching, punching."
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"China's two-year-old ban on ultra-thin plastic bags has arrived at the 'roof of the world'".
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In the Esquire article about Roger Ebert a few weeks back, Ebert mentioned his interview interview with Lee Marvin as one of his favorites, and now they've republished it online.
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"In a victory for the Save the Plastic Bag Coalition, a group of manufacturers, distributors and suppliers, Div. Five held that the California Environmental Quality Act required an environmental impact report given evidence increased paper bag use might significantly affect the environment."
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